curmudgeon

== Anglais == === Étymologie === Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici. === Nom commun === curmudgeon \kɚˈmʌdʒən\ ou \kɜː(ɹ)ˈmʌdʒ.ən\ Une personne bourrue, têtue, de mauvaise humeur, souvent en association au cynisme et au vieil âge. A very "fine old English gentleman", was my grand-uncle Rumgudgeon, but unlike him of the song, he had his weak points. He was a little, pursy, pompous, passionate semicircular somebody, with a red nose, a thick scull, a long purse, and a strong sense of his own consequence. With the best heart in the world, he contrived, through a predominant whim of contradiction, to earn for himself, among those who only knew him superficially, the character of a curmudgeon. — (Edgar Allan Poe, Three Sundays in a Week, 1841) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) === Prononciation === (États-Unis) : écouter « curmudgeon [kɚˈmʌdʒən] » Texas (États-Unis) : écouter « curmudgeon [Prononciation ?] »